What’s Your Type? With Diabetes, It Can Be Unclear

01 Feb What’s Your Type? With Diabetes, It Can Be Unclear

A drop in the number of newly-diagnosed diabetes cases is good public health news. But for the Type 1 diabetes community it’s a source of frustration, because the numbers hide their story.

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that new cases of diagnosed diabetes among adults in the U.S. had finally dropped after decades of growth, from 1.7 million in 2008 to 1.4 million in 2014.